From the article:
David Hearn, a two-time whitewater racing world champion who competed in the canoe slalom at three Olympic Games, was indicted by a grand jury Thursday in D.C. Superior Court on one felony charge, according to court records.
However it does have a definition in whatever context you’re looking at and is very real, so I can’t really agree with your whole comment.
So do Chuck-E-Cheese’s tokens.
Some searching suggests Spindrift is from 3-12% actual fruit juice. So let’s say 1 oz of juice in a 12 oz can. Simply Orange is a brand of premium orange juice. It costs about 10 cents per ounce. And that’s a premium product sold in its own packaging. In reality, you’re talking less than a nickle of juice in each can.
Today the high was 67 and it will top out in the low 80s through the next week.
In the winter months it’s humid. In the summer the Willamette Valley isn’t very humid. Currently it’s 46% humidity as I type this.
<Laughs in Willamette Valley.>
Have you ever bought a car stereo? Those numbers sound completely reasonable in comparison to third-party vehicle mods. It doesn’t sound at all like they’re nickle-and-diming people.
Perhaps a better comparison is that the mainstream automakers are forcing vast feature bundles on everyone. You aren’t given the choice to buy a paired-down automobile. It simply has to come with a spyware infotainment system glued into the dashboard.
Honestly, it would be a lot better if vehicles came in fairly and cheap forms. Then you can take them to any third party mechanic to add whatever additional upgrades you want.
Levelized cost of energy. It considers the full lifetime cost. And LCOE of solar is less than half that of fission.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/17/new-metric-shows-renewables-are-53-cheaper-than-nuclear-power/